As a cash-strapped small business owner, I had to come up with creative ways of promoting my business. And by creative, I mean free :) And no, this is not going to be another post on how to use Twitter, Facebook...

I think it really depends on your range of experience. Maybe to some none of the items on this list are amazing, however, I can say for certain that I talk to people regularly, including people who have been running businesses for years, to whom almost every item on this list is a revelation. So, are the people responding to your tweets and the people I talk to offline a different set? In some cases, perhaps. And does this mean we're singing to the choir? Maybe. As for the title, it's hard to get anyone to read a post entitled "6 Common Ways to Promote Your Business You've Probably Already Heard About." Besides, I've been immersed in online business for some years now and I still think it's amazing! Maybe all of this is in the eye of the beholder and maybe we all should take the time to be a little more amazed by what is possible. Thanks for retweeting. You made the right decision. :)

I caught some heat for retweeting this post by more than one person saying -- what's so amazing about an ebook? I must say that I thought the article was useful, for beginners diving in online, and so I retweeted. I'm not dissing the author or her work, but maybe we all need to make sure our titles convey what's real (myself included in that).